Quote Originally Posted by disrupt86
it might be just me but im not sure if i really under stand the question. what are you trying to use a timer 2 come on and off for? if its for your misters,some people do 15 min bursts and some people perfer to run them 24/7 . if this is your question and i was you, if your rez was in a seperate container i would run the sprayers 24/7 but since your doing a combo,your plants will allready be sitting in oxygen rich water and wouldnt be needed.however, if you have your pump set to turn of and on every 15 min for 24 hours your going to burn your pump out a lot faster than you would just letting it run continuesly.but if its a smaller grow you can pick up the aqua culter pumps made by hydro farm for verry little money at any hydroponics store.its one of the few products from my local company that is not a piece of crap,but i have about 10 of there pumps in different gpm's and i have never had one fail.
Well when I leave it running 24/7 the roots, rapid rooters and hydroton are totally soaked. I want them to dry a little and get soaked again right? My thoughts were soaking them all the time was over watering? Right now have it set to water for 15 minutes every 4 hours and they seem to be doing ok. Much better now that I added four 26watt daylight cfls to my 90 watt ufo leds. Oh an the water is sittng about three inches below the net pots right now and the only way they get water is from the micro sprayers. Roots were coming out all sides of the rapid rooters a few days ago but have yet to come out of the net pots. Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions.